The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? ….

Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking,….

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism..

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life..

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage..

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose..

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart..

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take..

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity..

I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point.

On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its artful simplic….

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the homet….

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has….

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how….

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pr….

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand..

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better..

No one is ever going to be as good as I was.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty..

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone..

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still..